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I challenge you to take those people who make bridges to build full software.

I am not meaning software is engineering or not.

It is a fact, in terms of cost, that software and bridge building are, most of the time very different activities with very different goals and cost-benefit ratios.

All those things count when taking decisions about the level of standardization.

About standards... there are lots also and widely used, from networking to protocols, data transfer formats... with well-known strengths and limitations.
> What stops authors doing what I did? Plenty of people want to read, to blame lack of readership is just completely wrong.

Because for three months of writing and it sounds like numerous hours of marketing you’ve made almost $8000. While I imagine that puts you ahead of the curve for the average self published author, The hourly return on investment sounds pretty low, especially for a job that sounds marketing heavy, which is not everyone’s cup of tea
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40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio
OCaml uses the lowest bit, which is nice because (aligned) pointers work as-is.
I'm thinking of something a lot easier than writing Swift code.
I don't see how you think NSI doesn't nullify https everywhere.

"we need MitM for performance". listen to yourself. if some optimization breaks security, you do not optimize.
> but my problem with c# is that it isn't as performant in Linux

Any evidence for this? From the benchmark game it seems like c# is more performant than go, and measurements are done on Linux.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> Every lisp system that ever existed uses this technique, and it never hurt them any.

Wasn't it part of the reason they ended up with poor "mechanical sympathy" on regular PCs, and got a bad performance reputation as a result?
No I mean... light is emitted from the singularity (because it's an incredibly super dense piece of something star-like). It shines outwards, losing momentum, and at the event horizon it bends back around and falls back down into the singularity.

So if I'm inside the event horizon, the light that's emitted from the singularity should hit my retina, right? What am I missing?
That's anti-competitive and frustrating, but not an argument against the value of a pure Apple hardware ecosystem.
Probably slightly more than just the increase in memory modules, since there's also the extra complexity of actually checking/reporting, but roughly.
>I heard an interesting point that China will not escape the middle income trap, they will however just rug pull the developed nations straight back into middle income or even lower income.

How would they do that?
The stored representation is packed such that all the stealable bits are contiguous. To get the original pointer value it’s unpacked first.
That is not the real test:

The real test is:

Your friend’s daughter had her drink spiked and then was raped while passed out by a bunch of frat guys.

If you believe that you and your buddies should get together with guns and baseball bats and go to the Frat house and exact justice/revenge on them, then you might really be an anarchist.

All the situations outlined are nice and good. Self-organization should be the default mode. However, there are situations where you need someone that can use violence to enforce justice. For most people, that would be the state.
Adding to the sentiment for other comments: please reconsider the bottom half portion where you name the actions of each individual. There's a lot of hidden work in software development and the only person who should care about individual actions is the PO/Manager/whoever, not the end-customer or stakeholder.
> I don't think so, because there isn't a performance drawback compared to threads when using async.

There is. When you write async functions, they get split into state machines and units of non-blocking work which need to be added and taken from work queues. None of this has to happen if you just spawn an OS thread and tell it "execute this function". No state machine, no work queue. It's literally just another sequential program that can do blocking I/O independently of your main thread.

If you insist on implementing a thread-based solution in exactly he same way that an async solution would, then yes they'll both pay the price of the convoluted runtime. The point is, there's no need to do that.
I wonder how we stop at 2 or 3? Or ever? When I suggest that people shouldn't fly in planes, I get responses like I've called their children ugly. I live a very energy-conscious life but I believe it mostly just codes to society as "loser". That I can live with; it's essentially the only way I can live with myself knowing the cost that I create to the planet. But exceedingly few will choose to live the way I do.

"Too late" is also a bit of an academic question as well; there are dragons lurking in the Earth systems - tipping points where carbon sinks become carbon sources and other feedback mechanisms waiting to be tipped. It's very easy to imagine that one tipping point cascades into another to create a runaway effect, though I don't believe there is scientific consensus on exactly where these points are, so we can perhaps hope to avoid them. That the oceans are so much hotter now than models predicted is an ominous sign that our understanding of such a complex system is still quite limited.
> The promise of privacy is one way in which they position themselves, but I would not bet the bank on that being true forever.

Indeed.

Privacy starts with architectural fundamentals that are very difficult to retrofit...

If a supplier of products has not built the products this way, it would be naive to bet bank or farm on the supplier. Even if there were profound motivation to retrofit.

Add to this the general tendency of the market to exploit its customers.
> That's a crock of shit, look at how brutal early civilizations were compared to today. You have an argument over long terms (100+ year spans), but not in the near term.

That's why I suppose anarchism as an ideology was born in the 19th century. You don't have to make it work through all of humankind history, just in the modern times. I say this and I'm not even an anarchist myself.
> The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how

Well, I guess I'm not an anarchist then because I think it's already difficult when there's pressure to tell people what to do.

I do wish I'd agree with that though.
Yep, there's a PoP in Montreal. Deploy to region YUL to use it.
Similar to SSDs, which are constantly switching to less and less reliable cells for density and now need fault correction built in to function at all.
I think this book may be recommended reading: https://amazon.com/dp/1565893182
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I have been using temporal.io for the last year and was quite impressed by it's fault-tolerant runtime, making my development experience much better.

And I thought today, that wouldn't it be cool if there was a language with temporal-like runtime? Where all Temporal's primitives would be baked in the language itself and where potential errors could be caught during the compilation step.
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Try Graeber and Wengrow's Dawn of Everything :)
Stealing bits from pointers makes sense sometimes, but in most cases an easier and less error-prone way to increase memory efficiency is to just use indices or relative pointers. Instead of shaving individual bits of a pointer take advantage of the fact that most pointers in a program are almost exactly alike.

Instead of storing a 64 bit prev and next pointer for an item in a linked list just store e.g. two 16 bit offsets. Then the next_ptr = (this_ptr & base_mask) + offset * alignment.

Most of the time wasting memory by storing full 64bit pointers is no big deal. But when it is, you can go a lot further than just shaving off a few bits.

If you want to be extra clever you can encode values in the base address of your pointers by taking advantage of how virtual memory is allocated. Every process has its own virtual memory pages and you can request memory pages at specific address ranges. For instance if you align all your memory at a 32gb boundary then you can use 32bit pointers + a base pointer without even having to mask. You can also use virtual memory allocation tricks to convey information about alignment, typing, whether a pointer is allowed to be shared between threads and so on. And again, without having to butcher the pointer itself.
In mine it was mandarory, there were 9 + 9 + 4.5 credits of only calculus itself. There was way more: discrete math, algebra...
It's not a "problem" if, as you say, perfection is an unreachable goal. The only question is whether it's an improvement over the status quo, and it clearly is.
well, they wouldn't be left wing if they presented centrist liberal ideals would they? you, too, may be confusing liberalism with leftism. almost as if it was the intended function of the liberal project...
Anarchy probably works okay in low density areas rich in natural resources resulting in low competition.

The pastoral idyll, the hunter gatherers, etc. Once you get high density, anonymity, etc. that comes with towns and cities it probably breaks down quite a bit and you need a force to keep it from imploding.
That's what they wrote.

State police == police who work for the state

Private police == police who work for a private entity

Corporate police == police who work for the corporation (against the employee 99% of the time)
Depends on the application, but commodifying (easier instances of) things that previously required bespoke engineering is a legitimate pursuit.
Making up what? Go drop by your nearby shop.
My hair styling constantly complains about management software that they use and quality of payment integration.
At work I constantly hear complaints about shitty, slow IDEs.
At optician store guy been complaining about inventory system.

People hate software that they're forced to use. Professionals are better at tolerating crapware, because there's usually sunk cost fallacy involved.
Everyone who experience the insane resolution, fps and gameplay-mods this game rocks on emulators will have a hard time coming back to the hardware. It really is severely limited by the console
Which was not the point. The question was who would be choosing Windows over macOS. I would and this is one of the reasons why.
I understand contractions, but “its” doesn’t track with possessive nouns, which is why this is such a pervasive “error”. English has some dumb rules that we don’t need to protect.
I clearly am not talking about in-band ECC (storing the error detection data inside the program accessible RAM) that the 25% performance drop refers to.
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>As someone who reads a lot, it's actually hard to find interesting things to read.

Why hard to find interesting things, because too much choice and/or market saturation of low quality?

>I'm a picky reader.

Is this part of the reason you find it hard to find interesting things? I've read the rest of your worthwhile reply but I'm finding it hard to reconcile the opening sentences.

>I have a kindle and I use it a lot, typically late at night and on the weekend. I do most my reading in bed. Every day.

Are paper books out for you? Thank you.
I am not sure how they can "interrogate" stuff. Can't they be simply told to go fuck themselves and do not stick their nose where it does not belong?
It's worth pointing out that there are all kinds or reasons why competent people may perform poorly at a given interview.
Maclisp on PDP-10 and Franz Lisp didn't, they used bibop type checking instead of tagged pointers.
I always thought giving a candidate some not very good code and asking them to code review it gives more of an insight into their ability than the leetcode style stuff
Me too but for adversaries that obfuscate and change their site often to prevent scrapping. It can happen depending on what you are looking at.
I loved the approach my “high school” (in The Netherlands) took around 2002: you had to pick a few books from a list of books the teacher read. Then read those books and have a 30 minute “free format” discussion with the teacher about them. She’d ask for shared themes between the books, or differences in the way the stories were told, what it showed about the approach or background of the authors etc. Basically a teacher-student one-time book club.
I'm in management (still technical, so low level of management) and the whole alignment thing is massively stupid. Language is inherently imprecise. When some group is saying they are doing X and another group is doing Y, which has the same words to describe it, doesn't mean X=Y.
Zed is written in Rust.

You're not the target audience. Move along.
Calculus is continuous, analog math. Digital Computers use discrete math.

Both are math, and both are still incredibly important. Rockets haven't gone out of style.
> I'm not sure that 9-year-olds care about "Good Art", they just care about the things they're exposed to

This is more anecdote than research, but from several authors who told stories to children successfully - Tolkien, Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll), Richard Adams (of Watership Down fame) - kids can certainly tell an _engaging_ story from a boring one, and kids of all age can turn their noses up at an overly preachy story.

I believe Adams says in his foreword that his girls begged him to write the story down because "it's so much better than some of the other books you read us".

Tolkien and Lewis disagreed on whether Narnia was too in-your-face preachy, but the Narnia series is certainly among the popular examples of children's literature out there.
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Yes, there typically has to be reciprocity; this is what closed off the world's media throughout the entire duration of the Cold War, and is the paradigm under which China (and Russia to an extent) still operate. It's why RFERL, originally a pro-American propaganda radio broadcast targeted at Eastern Bloc and communist countries, was created, and why you could go to jail for listening to it in the USSR. Actually, currently, you still can (in Russia under their wartime laws).

It wasn't and still isn't legal to run an unregulated foreign-owned news bureau in basically any country. Social media is enmeshed with current events / news so it falls under like jurisdiction.

"Schizo" applies here as there is a definite schism between countries in the world and always has been. Try operating a HAM radio around Florida/Cuba and you'll find the southern neighbor has jammed (I believe) most radio news coming from the US.
Again: which US companies would that be?

Apple doesn't benefit from banning Huawei, they're targeting completely different markets. Samsung is Korean. And Google (its Pixel line aside, which has an utterly negligible marketshare and effectively only exists to showcase bare-bones Android) doesn't care who is bringing in the Play Store bucks, for them it's no difference if it comes from Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Oneplus or whatever else.
Well that amount of money is what Europeans are living on (even with typically higher costs of living), so it's still not a tradeoff people would make.
I think the comparison to M3 was skipped because the launch event was for the iPad, which only had an M2 model.

Overall consensus is that the M4 range has much better energy/thermals, increased memory bus speed, increase in neural cores for better AI expected to be announced at WWDC.
There isn't going to be a "Climate Engineering Messiah". We know what we have to do already, and it will take everyone cooperating to make it happen.
It's not about fighting, it's about forcing US investing resources in a race they can't win because of economic factors. Similar to how US did that to Soviet Union with Strategic Defense Initiative and arms race, which led to the demise of Soviet economy and Soviet Union itself.
Ah ok I had a police officer force me to unlock my phone and show him my IMEI once so that answers why.
go test -race is awesome and everyone should use it.

But it's worth remembering that it's a dynamic analysis that only covers access patterns created by your tests.
That contractor being Shared Services Connected Ltd (SSCL) part of Sopra Steria.
You seem to have some romanticized notion of engineers and deeply offended by someone calling themselves engineer. Why do you even care if someone sits at a coffee shop writing emails and calls themselves engineer? You think it somehow dilutes prestige of word "engineer"? Makes it less elite or what?
> somewhere between room temperature and minutes-old vomit

New unit of measure unlocked.
If you're opposed to fast and cheap, I have great news for you about the cost and pace of construction in the US.
Great piece of software, used it for years. It’s great knowing you can buy any mouse with whatever buttons and you can make it work just how you want.
There's an important distinction because a police "union" is in opposition to any other workers and unions. The police are the tools of capital, they break up strikes. The cops aren't going to join you in a sympathy strike.
Read the function above the function you linked to.
The Docker build – Docker run workflow missing from AI/ML?
In my company, when engineers were somewhat in charge, it wasn't like this. As management got to "manage" the process, that's where we are. Plus a shitty economy lets us be more selective I guess.
All I kmow about Audi is that it costd $14,000 to repair a scape from a parking garage wall.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Small typo, the stellar mass/radius plot is labeled "Host Start"
Tesla Employee Reduction and Revenue
Dynamic feature flags: "battery > 0.2 || has_car_audio || camera_permission"
Indeed. To me, a lot of stuff like this (the kind and color of a blooming flower) is basically a way for the author to create or maintain an atmosphere/background to the book. Mentioning flowers a lot makes it clear this is not an action packed plot driven thriller. Mentioning military ranks and insider jargon and abbreviations paints a military atmosphere.

Basically a lot of words are “set pieces”. Very important for the general atmosphere but not overflowing with meaning and significance per se.
Is this where all software ends if you don't have a very strict enforced vision and policy that safeguard's you from this deterioration?
OK so feels like this needs some explanation. It is in an entirely unrelated field, just like Palantir (also directly from LOTR). Not to distract the discussion, but Skyrim trademark is registered at USPTO in the field of computer game related anything.
Compared to today? In the past century hundreds of millions of people have been slaughtered by states. Compare that with any "private sector" killing, now or in "early civilization" and the mounds of bodies are non-existent by comparison.
Full XML is hard if you’re going to go nuts with entity declarations and such (I’ve heard SVG output from Adobe tools is fond of those for some reason?), but the part that people commonly use is not really that much more complicated than JSON; perhaps even simpler in some places, given the absence of backslash escapes (that the simdjson paper spends quite a lot of time on). So for the fast path I think it’d be reasonable to expect JSON-like performance.
Rutger Bregman’s Humankind: A Hopeful History is also a good read for dispelling the common misconceptions regarding human behaviour.
I beg to differ, as shown on the linage of system languages started with Pascal dialects, Mesa, Cedar, Modula variants, which in a way is what Zig is going back to, with a revamped syntax for the C crowd.

High level system languages, that provide a good programming confort, while havig the tools to go under the hood, if so desired.

Being forced to deal with naked pointers and raw memory in every single line of code like C, is an anomaly only made possible due to industry's adoption of UNIX at scale.
I wrote a trilogy, literally nobody read it. I couldn't even get my partner to read it.

The main character, 3d printer, maker, programmer, discovers an electric engine that brings him to space, but then as he gets stranded in orbit due to various breakdowns. Aliens save him and this unlocks space for humans, but this occurs at basically the same time as a major space war begins. The main character tries to inform Earth, but being a nobody, he's taken as a crackpot. Basically a long adventure and lots of bad decisions.

Second book, independently and mostly unaware of the main character. The US government went ham trying to get us a ship and such into orbit of jupiter to investigate the aliens. But unknown to the US gov, the intention of the ship was to never return, to become a self-sustaining space station in jupiter orbit. Then all the drama around doing that. Including an invasion by 2 of the hostile alien birds.

Third book, Earth's first space war. This independent station in jupiter orbit is no longer the only interests. There's mars, venus, and other colonies. A major world war is occurring on earth but for the most part the space fleet were staying out of it. The losing side on earth orders their space fleet 'to do something' but they just end up sparking the space war. The main characters get drawn into the battle unintentionally because they arent as stealthy as they think.
I do. Because for all issues it has, it is still much better than whatever Windows has to offer.

> where non-Apple monitors and other 3rd party hardware just stops working after minor updates and then starts working again after another update, without any official statement from Apple that there was a problem and a fix?

At least my WiFi doesn't turn off indefinitely during sleep until I power cycle whole laptop because of a shitty driver.
Possibly. Although with GFCI sockets, I was not as concerned.
I feel like modern technological development has become a comic tragedy: we develop AI so we can develop AI tools to hack so we can develop more AI to combat that AI.

Seems to me like a self-perpetuating broken-window fallacy taken to its logical extreme.